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THE RULES OF ATTRACTION Send This Review to a Friend
At this point I'd hand writer-director Roger Avary's "The Rules of Attraction" an award as the most obnoxious film of 2002. Based on Bret Easton Ellis's book, the film is thoroughly off-putting with nary a redeeming feature. Set in a college in New England, the story follows a bunch of Neanderthal students as they become mired in generally ugly behavior, drug dealing and sexual abuse.
This isn't a film that thrives on the kind of horseplay found in "Animal House" or other films celebrating student grossness. The partying here is mostly just disgusting, and there's nothing in the film suggesting that Avary is trying to make some sort of social statement that justifies what we have to sit through.
James Van Der Beek plays Sean Bateman. (His brother, Patrick Bateman was the evil one of Ellis's novel "American Psycho.") Others stuck in this cast include Eric Stoltz, Faye Dunaway, Swoosie Kurtz, Ian Somerhalder, Shannyn Sossamon, Jessica Biel, Kip Pardue, Thomas Ian Nicholas and Fred Savage. A Lions Gate Films release.
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